HL Deb 21 February 1832 vol 10 c579
The Bishop of London

trusted, their Lordships would allow him to make one observation connected with a remark which fell from him the other evening, on the subject of the closing of the National Schools in the City of London, the dispersion of the Scholars, and the conversion of those Buildings into Hospitals for the reception of Patients labouring under the disease of Cholera, with which the Metropolis was now unhappily afflicted. It appeared some misapprehension existed on the subject, and, therefore, he begged to state, that these measures of the closing of the schools in question, and their conversion to the purposes he had mentioned, did not originate with the Central Board of Health in the City of London, but with the Central Board of Health of the metropolis. The recommendation to close them was made by the latter Board to that of the City of London, and had been acted upon, he regretted to add, in many instances. He had thought it necessary to say thus much, because his observation went to affect the conduct of that Board; which instead of having issued the order itself was merely the medium through which the recommendation of the Central Board of Health of the metropolis was conveyed. He had thought it necessary to give this explanation in justice to the parties in question.

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